Monitoring Jobs › Defining CPU Monitoring Jobs

Defining CPU Monitoring Jobs

You can define a CPU Monitoring (CPU_MON) job to monitor the CPU usage of the computer where the specified agent is installed.

Note: To run these jobs, your system requires CA WA Agent for UNIX, Linux, Windows, or i5/OS.

Required Statements

To define a CPU Monitoring job, you must specify the following statement:

• AGENT

Optional Statements

You can specify the following optional statements for a CPU Monitoring job:

• CPU
• JOBCLASS
• USER
• WAITMODE

Example: Monitor Used CPU

This example continuously monitors the CPU used on the SYSAGENT computer. Each time the used CPU exceeds 75 percent, an alert named CPU is triggered. The job continues monitoring the CPU usage until it is ended manually.

AGENT SYSAGENT
CPU FROM(75) TO(100) CONTINUOUS(CPU) USED